"Against Theory", the title essay in this volume, challenges the notion that literary theory has any real work to do, or any results to show. This challenge – issued by Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels in "Critical Inquiry" (8:4) – strikes some...

In "The Quest Mircea Eliade" stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope that what he calls a new humanism "will be engendered by...

Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction 1. New York, 1935-1941: The De-Marxization of the Intelligentsia 2. The Second World War and the Attempt to Establish an Independent American Art 3. The Creation of an American Avant-Garde, 1945-1947 4. Su...

In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German re...

Contents: List of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. Constantijn Huygens and The New World 2".Ut pictura, ita visio": Kepler's Model of the Eye and the Nature of Picturing in the North 3".With a Sincere Hand and a Faithful Eye": The Craft of Rep...

Translator's Note Tympan Differance Note on a Note from Being and Time The Pit and the Pyramid: Introduction to Hegel's Semiology The Ends of Man The Linguistic Circle of Geneva Form and Meaning: A Note on the Phenomenology of Language The Supplement...

This considerably revised second edition of Wittgenstein's 1914-1916 notebooks contains a new appendix with photographs of Wittgenstein's original work, a new preface by Elizabeth Anscombe, and a useful index by E. D. Klemke. Corrections have been ma...

This book, which Foucault himself has judged accurate, is the first to provide a sustained, coherent analysis of Foucault's work as a whole. To demonstrate the sense in which Foucault's work is beyond structuralism and hermeneutics, the authors unf...

A classic text of enduring significance, Moses Mendelssohn's "Jerusalem" (1783) stands as a powerful plea for the separation of church and state and also as the first attempt to present Judaism as a religion eminently compatible with the ideas of the...

Contents: List of Illustrations Foreword Creators 1. Duchamp: Private and Public 2. Miro I. Fertile Fields II. Avant-Garde Masterpieces 3. Mondrian: Meaning in Abstract Art I 4. Newman: Meaning in Abstract Art II 5. Olitski, Kelly, Hamilton...